Carrie Fisher Quotes
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I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
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I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
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I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
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There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.
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I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.
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Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
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I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.
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There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
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Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?
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I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.
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I just admire my mother very much.
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I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
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What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.
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I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.
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I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.
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Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.
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Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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My mother is an immensely powerful woman.
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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.